The World Health Organisation (WHO) has made a donation of 26 ventilators and 3, 560 fingertip oxygen pulse oximeters to Nigeria.
The Country Representative of WHO in Nigeria, Dr Walter Kazadi, gave the items to the Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, recently in Abuja.
Kazadi said the Federal Government had done relatively well in the management of the pandemic in the country and maintained a national case fatality rate of 1.3 percent.
He said since Nigeria discovered its first case of COVID-19 on February 27, 2020, the country had gone through the stages of having sporadic cases, clusters of cases and community transmission.
Kazadi said: “It is against this backdrop that we wish to demonstrate our continued support of the ministry’s efforts in further strengthening the country’s capacity in case management.
“This is in addition to our ongoing support across all pillars of the country’s COVID-19 response at federal and state levels.
“To this end, we wish to donate 26 ventilators and 3,560 fingertip oxygen pulse oximeters for the management of patients in isolation and treatment facilities, as well as home-based patients.
“As of the beginning of August 2021, about 15 months into the outbreak, Nigeria reached 175, 264 confirmed cases, the majority (over 94 per cent) had been successfully treated and discharged. Unfortunately, 2, 163 died.”
